What is Mahāsāra Meditation?

Although you’ve heard of the inner peace that meditation promises to deliver, few people have experienced it to any significant degree. The question is why? The Mahāsāra School of Meditation teaches a practice system that is simple yet extremely powerful, and which is more subtle than just learning how to watch your breath or your thoughts. In the Essence of Meditation course, you’ll receive profound teachings that’ll grant access to your own inner awareness. Throughout the course, you’ll progress through a series of highly nuanced and targeted practices that’ll enable you to easily sidestep obstacles and attain deep states of awareness.

Mahāsāra Meditation is a simple yet powerful practice that anyone can learn regardless of their background. The name Mahāsāra Meditation does not refer to a new style of meditation, but to how an ancient mantra-based tradition is taught to a modern audience.

Mahāsāra Meditation is based on ancient yogic teachings that have been practiced since 400 C.E. The teachings draw elements from Patañjali’s Yoga Sutra, the Shaiva Tantra traditions, and the teachings of the great 20th-century sage Sri Ramana Maharshi. That said, Mahāsāra Meditation does not require adherence to any spiritual or religious beliefs. The course is designed with a Western, secular audience in mind, meaning that the meditation techniques are effective without having to accept any philosophical or belief system.

How is Mahāsāra Meditation Practiced?

Mahāsāra Meditation is based on three limbs of practice: right understanding, right method, and right inner feeling. Under right understanding, we establish a conceptual foundation that allows the practice to take root and blossom. Under right method, we learn a simple and beautiful meditation technique. Under right inner feeling, we learn how emotions and intention can deepen our practice.

Mahāsāra Meditation is practiced by sitting comfortably and receiving a mantra. A great deal of emphasis is placed on how to properly understand and think the mantra.

Why mantra? Put simply, we experience the natural peace and bliss of our own deepest awareness when our thought-stream calms down. Since thoughts are essentially sound vibrations, we use sound itself to gently absorb and quiet them down. When we work with a mantra, we do not practice forceful concentration or fight against our thoughts. We silently think the mantra, allowing its vibration to gently still our mind and reveal the deep reservoir of peace and bliss at the heart of our being.

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What You Will Learn

In Mahāsāra Meditation’sEssence of Meditation course, you’ll learn, among other things, how to:

Set up an effective meditation space

Establish proper posture, alignment, and breath

Manage physical pains and discomforts while you are meditating

Establish a strong conceptual foundation that will allow your meditation to significantly deepen

Work with our thoughts in a positive and non-combative way

Understand the difference between concentrative and so-called effortless approaches to meditation

Understand the difference between guided meditations/visualizations and meditation proper

Properly repeat a mantra

Meditate without a mantra, if that is your preference

The secret behind the power of attention

Determine what the proper target of meditation should be

Establish the right bhava (feeling) that will allow your meditation to become heartfelt and expansive

Integrate your formal meditation session with the rest of your daily life

Overcome perceived “dry-spells” and the feeling of lack of progress

Avoid common hindrances that can adversely affect your meditation practice and more

I invite you to transform your life through the sublime practice of meditation.

“To achieve a higher state of awareness means to focus so intently on our feeling of being that it gradually overshadows our limited body-consciousness, leading to the realization that awareness is what we truly are and that the entire universe is in fact contained within that awareness.“